Governance at a distance? The turn to the local in UK social policy

Social Policy Review 21: Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 245-266

  Wallace, Andrew ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

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